Sketchbook Pro Brush Settings

Some of you have asked what brushes I use.

Here are my brush settings for Sketchbook Pro.

I have fairly extreme pressure settings as 

I'm pretty lazy and don't like swapping between different size brushes, 

I let pressure handle the change. 

I should mention I have a corresponding eraser 

for each of these listed below: 

when I use a certain brush, I always use the equivalent eraser.

Old pencil/ink brush: 

New pencil/ink brush: 

Triangle ink brush: 

Watercolour/Paint brush: 

I've tried recreating these in PS and Painter but with no real satisfactory results. 

As I use PS for 'post' work, levels etc, I use standard preset brushes.

Hope that's of some use!

RIP Jean Giraud

Goodbye Moebius, thank you for everything.

Ranger Bob WIP

I thought I'd get this done this week, but too busy elsewhere ;)

I've been doing a good deal of painting for clients which has been great, 

but I've also employed photo texture overlay work in these to give them real bite.

Here, I'm just kicking back and relying on pure paint-work,

and a shit load of adjustment layers as usual.

I'll post all the stages once done, but really it's a case of

filling the page with a brush...

I hope to finish the Bomb Doctor strip (or at least re-do and finish) one day,

but for now it's an umbrella project just to get some personal pieces done.

Bomb Doctor lunchtime sketch

 Quick lunchtime sketch (over an old rough)

Using my triangle brush which I love and hate equally. 

I've included the settings,

you'll need to creat a triangle and sample it first.

WARNING: may be addictive, will probably crash .

(the link is the actual size of the working image, too damn small)

 Should have been painting it.... maybe I will...

Unused Me

Stuff what not got used.

ImagineFX Sketchbook Feature

Many thanks to ImagineFX 

for featuring my work in the latest issue's (#80)

sketchbook section.

Sketch Page 2012

Because I had to....

 it's therapy...

Odds and Sods...

Mainly sods, stuff destined to go no further!

Best Taxi

I tried to keep this as loose as possible

(the mech is probably a little too loose tbh)

Trying to paint as much as I can these days.

Sketchbook Pro and PS.

Christmas Wishes

Okay, just time to squeeze another in...

it felt a little blank so I comp'd up a wish of mine...

All the best to you and yours, see you in 2012

BLAST from the Past #005

These pages were my contribution to the Tori Amos

Comic Book Tattoo. A magnificent anthology title

with all strips taking inspiration from her songs.

 Ivan Brandon scripted, I drew. From 2008.

They feel sort of festive now, so please, drink and be merry!

INTERMISSION

Probably my last post before 2012, 

so many many MANY thanks for all 

the support through this crazy year.

At some point during the work posted in

the last few Blasts 

I did some comic work, god knows how. 

I got paid $10 a page for the above work.

That's why I don't do comics anymore.

Enclothe T-Shirt Design

A t-shirt design I recently finished for Enclothe.

BLAST from the Past #004

RunWild was a prototype project
that would have been an epic game.

Essentially a riders on beasts racer, it gave us the

opportunity to concept a unique IP for Disney.

A real shame it never got the greenlight, someone

somewhere will do it one day I'm sure.
In the meantime, there is a lot of range here,
and if anyone finds one single piece inspiring,
then I'm a happy man.

INTERMISSION

The next project was a so hard.

I think I did over 70 individual character studies, 

and none seemed to inspire the project leads.

By it's very nature 90% of concept work ends up in the bin,

but here I felt 100% failure.

As if to compound that,

when the project failed to meet greenlight

I was reallocated to environment modelling.

A task I hadn't undertaken since 7 years prior.